Thursday, June 12, 2008

Teh Irony, I Can Has It?

[...W]hy isn't it legal to stop people walking down the street to see if they have a gun? I'm sick of reading in the newspaper day after day about the gun violence and everyone is up in arms about stopping it.

Some figure of speech, Mr. Po-lice State! I laughed 'til I wept ("Gun Culture? You're soaked in it!" Dude, ask a fish about water!) -- but the tears were real:

What is really being done -- a few protests where everyone is saying they want them off the streets, yet it's their families out there with them shooting up the streets like it's the Wild West."

Let's get real. Start stopping people and let's find out who is carrying guns and get them off our streets.

MARK ARRAS

Schenectady

Duh, gee, Mark, d'y'know just what portion of those eeeevil guns folks are carryin' are doin' any "shootin' up the streets?" Less than one percent. And Mark? Some of your fellow New York subjectscitizens er, residents are legally carrying guns right now. And in the more-civilized States? Quite a few are. An' they are not mowing down passers-by over harsh looks. Wooooooah!Something like 99% of all men are equipped to be flashers. Yet amazingly, possession of the means of flashing does not translate into so doing. Why would carrying guns (rather louder and therefore noticeable well past line-of-sight) be any different?

"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."